Veneer Chair

There are so many ways to make a chair, but this one is similar to how skateboard decks are made. But let’s start at the beginning, when plywood veneers were being made in British Columbia, way back when mid-century modern started becoming a thing…

Fast forward to shops making cleaverly designed objects with lots of pressure and woodworking tools:

Thanks for documenting, Victor & Albert Museum, UK.

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/take-a-seat-a-story-of-modernism-in-three-chairs

The Isokon Long Chair, by Marcel Breuer, a Bauhaus student in 1935-1936:

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Other ways to bend wood

Of course, there are clever people who figure out how to cut wood to create their objects, like drum shells, created with segmented curved cuttings, like this:

Or with walnut staves:

Humanity’s creativity is endless. This is applicable to me and my crafting skateboard decks for art because it relies on the same principles: forming sheets of cross-grain-laid veneers that become much more than the wood was alone, and in quite the useful strategy. Think of the things that are made with plywood everyday, the walls of your house, the cabinets you keep coffee cups in, the phono console, the famous furniture like those from the Eames couple, boat building, industrial shelving, there’s even waterproof (-ish) treated plywood.

Conclusion

Okay, but "close tab”… we’re not making drums. Get that off the list.

Update

Wait! I had to add this video to the list, because “MY GOODNESS” it’s a well made video (in German) about using 100+ year old wine barral oak staves to make a drum set is so satisfying to watch:

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